Ordinary body armor
- Banded mail
- Chain mail
- Field plate mail
- Full plate mail
- Gnollish bone mail
- Gnollish leather armor
- Gnollish studded leather armor
- Leather armor
- Leather jacket
- Orcish chain mail
- Orcish ring mail
- Plate mail
- Ring mail
- Scale mail
- Splint mail
- Studded leather armor
All ordinary body armor can be mythic and legendary.
Materials
Ordinary body armor is typically generated from iron, but the leather armors and the leather jacket are made of leather, gnollish bone mail is made of bone, and plate mails, chain mail and ring mail are sometimes made of rarer materials, such as mithril or orichalcum. Mithril-coats are made of mithril. Dragon scale mails are made from dragon hide. Materials affect weight, color, and certain interactions in the game.
Dragon scale mails and dragon scales
Dragon scale mails are changed from NetHack. They are heavier and incur a spell casting penalty, except for white dragon scale mails that are conductive of magic and incur no such penalty. Thus, except for the white variant, dragon scale mails are not a very good choice for a wizard. Dragon scale mails cannot be mythic or legendary.
- Black dragon scale mail
- Blue dragon scale mail
- Gray dragon scale mail
- Green dragon scale mail
- Orange dragon scale mail
- Red dragon scale mail
- Silver dragon scale mail
- White dragon scale mail — No spell casting penalty
- Yellow dragon scale mail
When a killed dragon leaves a corpse, it may also drop its dragon scales, which can be crafted into dragon scale mails. The chance depends on the dragon's age: a dragon hatchling drops them 1 time in 5, except a gray dragon hatchling, which never drops them; an adult dragon drops them 1 time in 2; and an ancient dragon always drops them, as exceptional scales. A dragon that was brought back to life drops them only a tenth as often, and your own tame dragons never drop them. A dragon that leaves no corpse, for example because it was disintegrated, drops no scales either. Dragon scales are weaker versions of dragon scale mails, improving AC only by 3 and yielding merely one (usually the weakest) of the powers conferred by the corresponding dragon scale mail.
- Black dragon scales — No death resistance
- Blue dragon scales
- Gray dragon scales — No magic resistance
- Green dragon scales
- Orange dragon scales — No free action
- Red dragon scales
- Silver dragon scales — No reflection
- White dragon scales — No spell casting penalty
- Yellow dragon scales — No petrification resistance
Mithril-coats
Mithril-coats can be mythic or legendary.
Armor Quality
Ordinary body armor and mithril-coats can be exceptional, elite, or celestial/primordial/infernal.
- Exceptional: -4 AC, +1 MC
- Elite: -8 AC, +2 MC
- Celestial/Primordial/Infernal: -12 AC, +4 MC, but can be used only by lawful/neutral/chaotic beings.
Ancient dragons can drop exceptional dragon scales, and unique dragons elite dragon scales.